Engineering Controller

Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we’re one of the UK’s leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we’re proud to employ over 28,000 talented colleagues across 36 manufacturing sites and 21 distribution depots in the UK and the US. We bring delicious food to life and our products cover every meal occasion from breakfast through to dinner and dessert, with lunch and snacking in between. In FY25, our shared passion helped us achieve combined revenues of approximately £4bn.

Our extensive direct-to-store (DTS) network, with 17 depots across the UK, allows us to deliver fresh and frozen food from our own operations and trusted partners to thousands of stores every day, ensuring consumers enjoy the very best, whenever and wherever they shop. Our site in Kiveton employs over 600 and is the UK’s largest quiche bakery, producing more than 42 million quiche each year along with a wide range of ready meals and soups.

What you’ll be doing

• Establish structures, processes and procedures which will deliver legislative compliance for the site and consistency in ways of working across all areas and verify their implementation and compliance using periodic audits.
• Provide leadership and direction to the engineering team to create a culture which ensures that people are kept safe, engaged, focused, developed and delivering to their potential while providing reliable manufacturing processes that comply with Food Safety and Health and Safety Standards.
• Continuously develop and improve the site asset base through effective planning for and financial justification of the capital projects necessary to design, construct and install manufacturing processes which improve efficiency and maintain compliance standards.
• Create and deploy a site engineering strategy, aligned to the Group Greencore Engineering Excellence Vision which supports the site’s strategic goals and is compliant with all company and legislative standards.
• Proactively contribute to product development opportunities by applying and sourcing the best available technology and automation to create efficient and sustainable manufacturing process which will enhance our market position.
• Support the energy reduction and sustainability agenda to reduce environmental impacts across the site by ensuring all actions are completed and the project plan is being executed.
• Drive year on year improvements to deliver higher engineering standards to reduce equipment failures, increase reliability and up-time and in doing so, increase site capacity.
• Contribute to the site Leadership team as a functional expert and to the Engineering Leadership Team and engineering forums to ensure engineering solutions support delivery of the business plans.

What we’re looking for

• Relevant degree calibre (e.g., BEng or equivalent) and a member of recognised professional body - IET/IMech E, ICT/Institute of Mechanical Engineering.
• National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) Certified, with sound knowledge of behavioural safety at a site level.
• Knowledge of World Class Manufacturing and Best Practice Maintenance.
• Proven track record of leading an Engineering department.
• Legionella Level 8 and Hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) awareness.
• Experience of creating a Lean enterprise culture.
• Able to set, manage and optimise maintenance budgets.
• Experienced in the use and operation of Computerised maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Computer literate with working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Project Management, ideally with some project management certification.
• Experience coaching and mentoring developing engineers and apprentices.
• Reliability Management expertise (FMECA, RCM, Tribology, CBM, TPM).

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary and job related benefits.
• Holidays.
• Competitive matched pension contributions.
• Life insurance up to 4x salary.
• Company shares save scheme.
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform.
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform.
• Enhanced parental leave and menopause policies.

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.

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